annotate mercurial/help/multirevs.txt @ 13007:e98bf6948092 stable

posix: remove is-comparison between integers Comparing integers by identity relies on a CPython implementation detail of caching integers between -5 and 256.[1] [1] <http://docs.python.org/c-api/int.html#PyInt_FromLong>
author Dan Villiom Podlaski Christiansen <danchr@gmail.com>
date Tue, 16 Nov 2010 21:35:58 +0100
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1 When Mercurial accepts more than one revision, they may be specified
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2 individually, or provided as a topologically continuous range,
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3 separated by the ":" character.
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5 The syntax of range notation is [BEGIN]:[END], where BEGIN and END are
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6 revision identifiers. Both BEGIN and END are optional. If BEGIN is not
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7 specified, it defaults to revision number 0. If END is not specified,
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8 it defaults to the tip. The range ":" thus means "all revisions".
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10 If BEGIN is greater than END, revisions are treated in reverse order.
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12 A range acts as a closed interval. This means that a range of 3:5
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13 gives 3, 4 and 5. Similarly, a range of 9:6 gives 9, 8, 7, and 6.